On the same ground, and literally sitting among the senators, were a whole regiment of ladies, whispering, talking, laughing, and fidgeting… the whole thing was more irregular, and unbusiness-like than any one could have imagined …
Nature abhors a vacuum.
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.
If Germany surrendered to the forces of revolution either of the Left or to Right the state of Europe [would be] full of very ominous prospects.
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.
